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" Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their... "
Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784 - Page 285
edited by - 1819
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array "d, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And,...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array 'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And,...
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,...
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Poems: Now First Collected

Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 pages
...Bid Genius kindle at a poet's name, And young Ambition emulate thy fame. MY SISTER, ON HER BIRTH-DAY. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...wanton wealth array'd ; In these, ere triflers half thelr wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. How swiftly...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uneonfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 368 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 378 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, TJnenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks...
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The Reader's Manual: Designed for the Use of Common Schools in the United States

1840 - 322 pages
...should those manners be thought despicable, in our fathers', which Goldsmith has commended in verse'? Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play', The...frolic o'er the vacant mind', Unenvied', unmolested', unconfined. But the long pomp', the midnight masquerade', With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed',...
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native «harm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uneonfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,...
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The Neutral French: Or, The Exiles of Nova Scotia

Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 360 pages
...obscure path that led through the wood, he hurried away. CHAPTER II. * " To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...play, The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway." THE absence of Louis would not have been much noticed at any other time. The Neutral French lived so...
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